Opera is Us: Exploring the transformative power of music with Anna Starushkevych's Music Will Save The World & a new film inspired by personal experience
Updated: 2025-02-28 10:24:00
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday , 28 February 2025 Opera is Us : Exploring the transformative power of music with Anna Starushkevych's Music Will Save The World a new film inspired by personal experience Labels : music news Consider the scenario where all live , organically-produced music , whether professional or amateur , suddenly vanished globally . The absence would profoundly affect people everywhere . The above comes from a statement released by Music Will Save The World a non-profit organisation founded by an opera singer , experimental music artist and director Anna Starushkevych and dedicated to protecting and promoting organic music , music that is performed live and does not
: , , , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday , 28 February 2025 Now Grade II Listed , this unassuming modernist house in Aldeburgh , was home to Imogen Holst , has links to her father , was built by architects who worked on the 1951 Festival of Britain Labels : music news 9 Church Walk , Aldeburgh , Suffolk , home of Imogen Holst from 1964 to 1984 Photo : Historic England Archive A relatively unassuming modernist house in Aldeburgh , 9 Church Walk , has just been listed at Grade II by Historic England . The house was built in 1962 to 1964, designed by architects HT Jim and Elizabeth Betty Cadbury-Brown for composer , arranger and conductor Imogen Holst , daughter of composer Gustav . Holst
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday , 28 February 2025 Taking us on an emotional journey : Solomon's Knot in Bach's 1725 version of the St John Passion at Wigmore Hall Labels : concert review Wigmore Hall St Nicholas Church , Leipzig Where Bach's St John Passion first performed Bach : St John Passion 1725 Solomon's Knot Wigmore Hall Reviewed 26 February 2025 Sung from memory with remarkable emotional directness , at times this was close to a concert staging and very much a powerful communal experience We know frustratingly little about the details of Bach's actual performance practice in Leipzig . For instance , when Bach revived the St John Passion in 1725, having first performed it in
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday , 26 February 2025 Notes of Old : Helen Charlston Sholto Kynoch draw together a variety of composers , echoing common themes preoccupation in music that they love Labels : concert review Temple Music Sholto Kynoch Helen Charlston in rehearsal Image from YouTube video Notes of Old Mompou , Hahn , Monteverdi , Bach , Schubert , Bach arranged by György Kurtág , Anna Semple Pauline Viardot , Ravel , Marc Antoine Charpentier , Schumann Helen Charlston , Sholto Kynoch , Temple Music Temple Church Reviewed 25 February 2025 The two performers drew us into to their fascinating world of influences and connections , a real duo recital as voice and piano
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday , 25 February 2025 Vivid detail white-hot performances : Gavin Higgins' Horn Concerto The Faerie Bride now on disc Labels : record review Gavin Higgins : Horn Concerto Fanfare , Air and Flourishes The Faerie Bride Ben Goldscheider , Marta Fontanals-Simmons , Roderick Williams , Three Choirs Festival Chorus , BBC National Orchestra of Wales , Jaime Martin , Martyn Brabbins Lyrita Reviewed 25 February 2025 Two of Gavin Higgins most substantial recent works in outstanding performances that reveal the wealth of vivid detail in the writing , with horn player Ben Goldscheider on white-hot form and strong performances from Marta Fontanals-Simmons , Roderick
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday , 25 February 2025 Back for the 18th edition , the Winchester Chamber Music Festival has everything from Bach Beethoven to George Crumb Caroline Shaw Labels : preview The Winchester Chamber Music Festival , artistic director Kate Gould , returns from 2 to 5 May 2025 for the 18th festival , with a wide range of performances , schools performances , family concerts , talks and masterclasses at venues across Winchester including St . Paul's Church , St Lawrence Church and the Theatre . Royal Music performed includes the Clarinet Quintet by the English composer Pamela Harrison 1915-1990 who was a pupil of Gordon Jacob and Arthur Benjamin , the Voice of the
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday , 24 February 2025 New Music Biennial : 20 new works as part of the festival celebrating Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture Labels : preview For the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad , the PRS Foundation's New Music 20x12 showcased a range of short no longer than 15 minutes pieces by contemporary music creators . Renamed New Music Biennial the festival has become a showcase for works in a range of genres , including contemporary classical , jazz , R B , folk , global , sound installations , and electronica , creating a pop-up , interactive space for audiences to discover and engage with new music and reaffirming new music is for everyone whilst highlighting.jpg)
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday , 24 February 2025 Beset by criticisms of Wagnerisme , Édouard Lalo cried off opera after Le Roi d'Ys but the work itself held the stage and is finally returning to London Labels : preview Poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo's Le roi d'Ys . nbsp During the 19th century , many French composers became fascinated by Wagner and his operas . Not every composer managed as balanced an attitude as Gabriel Fauré and André Messager . After their visit to Bayreuth , they produced Les Souvenirs de Bayreuth a series of quadrilles based on Wagnerian themes for piano duet , a piece which remains a nerdy delight for Wagner . enthusiasts Other composers,%20Jessica%20Cale%20(Giulietta)%20(c)%20Richard%20Hubert%20Smith.jpg)
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Sunday , 23 February 2025 Musical magic moments : Bellini's The Capulets the Montagues at English Touring Opera takes us firmly into the 1950s and New York's mean streets Labels : ETO opera review Bellini : The Capulets the Montagues Brenton Spiteri , Jessica Cale , Masimba Ushe English Touring Opera , 2025 Photo : Richard Hubert Smith Bellini : The Capulets and the Montagues Jessica Cale , Samantha Price , Brenton Spiteri , Timothy Nelson , Masimba Ushe , director : Eloise Lally , conductor : Alphonse Cemin , English Touring Opera Hackney Empire Reviewed 22 February 2025 A 1950s Mafia based account Bellini's star-crossed lovers imbued with magic thanks to
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday , 22 February 2025 Two violas : Peter Mallinson on exploring the surprisingly fertile ground of music for two violas with fellow viola player Matthias Wiesner Labels : cd news interview Matthias Wiesner , Lynn Arnold Peter Mallinson recording Two Violas : Regeneration at St Peter's Church , Boughton Monchelsea , Kent in 2024 Viola players Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner have been exploring the perhaps surprising yet remarkably fertile ground of music for two violas both with and without keyboard In March , they release their fourth disc , Two Violas : Regeneration on the Meridian label with pianist Lynn , Arnold features arrangements of Bach and
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday , 21 February 2025 Welsh artists and Welsh stories : Welsh National Opera celebrates its 80th birthday with a 2024 25 season that manages to make a stir , even with insufficient funding Labels : preview WNO Edward Dick's production of Puccini's Tosca with Robert Hayward as Scarpia at Opera North in 2023 Photo : James Glossop Welsh National Opera celebrates its 80th anniversary during the 2024 25 season and whilst the current financial climate in the arts is hardly a reason for blowing balloons and throwing streamers , the company under its new management team of Sarah Crabtree and Adele Thomas , has put together a season that celebrates both Welsh
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday , 19 February 2025 Many happy returns : György Kurtág celebrates his 99th birthday Labels : music news György Kurtág and Benjamin Appl during the recording of Lines of Life The great Hungarian composer György Kurtág is 99 today . nbsp This week Kurtág's album , Lines of , Life with baritone Benjamin Appl , and pianists James Baillieu and Pierre Laurent Aimard is released , the centrepiece of which is Kurtág's Hölderlin Gesänge In my recent interview with Benjamin Appl , the baritone commented that working with Kurtág on the songs was a highly demanding . process As he enters his 100th year , Kurtág has released some thoughts on music , singing and the
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday , 18 February 2025 Piano in the Elms Festival : World Heart Beat's celebration of all things piano Labels : preview Julian Joseph All things piano are being celebrated at the Piano in the Elms Festival curated by World Heat Beat . The festival takes place from 12 to 15 March 2025, at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens , nbsp state-of-the-art digital music education and concert venue in Nine Elms which opened in January 2023. There will be performances from pianist and composer Julian Joseph , GKO , and Armenian-British classical pianist , Kristina Arakelyan and jazz pianist and composer Alberto L . Ferro Julian Joseph will premiere a brand-new composition.png)
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday , 14 February 2025 Make some noise to save the School of Music : Musicians gather in mass demonstration to protest proposed axing of Cardiff University’s School of Music on Saturday 22 February Labels : music news Wales Last month 28 January Cardiff University confirmed plans to close Cardiff University School of Music , a facility that has produced outstanding musicians , boasting a wealth of alumni , including lWelsh composers Karl Jenkins , Grace Williams and Alun Hoddinott , as well as contemporary composer David John Roche and current Head of Composition at Royal Academy of Music , Philip Cashian . nbsp The School also hosts a number of well-known
: : , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday , 13 February 2025 Letter from Florida : It is hard to imagine any orchestra getting closer to playing as one , though , than The Cleveland Orchestra Labels : concert review Letter from Florida Lalo : Symphonie Espagnole Stephane Deneve , Maria Duenas , The Cleveland Orchestra Arsht Center , Miami Dvorak : Symphony No.8 Bizet : Suite from L’Arlesienne compiled by Stephane Deneve Lalo : Symphonie Espagnole Maria Duenas , Cleveland Orchestra , Stephane Deneve Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts , Miami , Florida Reviewed by Robert J Carreras 1 February 2025 In our latest Letter from Florida , Robert J Carreras enjoys The Cleveland Orchestra